Yes, insist her beauty-pageant colleagues - some of whom are in Congress. Wife, mom, governor - former beauty queen? Can that be? But instead of just adding to the emerging image of the Alaska governor, her beauty-pageant past has served to upset traditional perceptions of what women are capable of. This accomplishment has since become boilerplate language in her biography. She captured the title of Miss Wasilla in 1984 and went on to win first runner-up and Miss Congeniality in the Miss Alaska pageant. ![]() The rest of America - those of us who did not pick up on those early cues - learned after Palin’s introduction to the nation that she did indeed compete in pageants as a 20-year-old. ![]() “She definitely still has the big pageant hair,” says Hilary Levey, a sociologist who has studied beauty pageants.
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